Safety Boat Launch.

[Alistairr]

Watch this clip of Testing Launching a safety boat.
Emergency Procedure being tested in the Port of Durban

Tell me, once its launched, how do you get too it?
Surely they don't launch it with the survivors in it, do they?

Cheers

Al.

 

[Pinnacle]

You don't.

They do!

 

[landaftaf]

indeed they do - just have to time it so its not done after a curry lunch /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Dyflin]

Lots of interesting manufacturers pics here...
free fall

In case anyone wondered how they get it back up again...

 

[omega2]

Yes, they are strapped in and quite safe. far quicker that davits and ropes

 

[Talbot]

designed to get the boat + passengers through a ring of burning fuel around a damaged tanker (they can access the boat without going into the open air) The drop provides sufficient forward momentum to surface outside the burning area!

 

[SteveA]

Oil/gas rigs also have these and have to drop a great deal further - must be a hell of a feeling!

 

[Rustyknight]

I think, though I'm probably wrong, that there used to be a rig for this kind of thing set up in the Solent....... Up the Hamble river possibly???

 

[st599]

Yes, there's one on the Tyne too.

 

[Vara]

Yep it's(was) at Warsash,I did a couple of fire fighting courses and a sea survival course there.Great fun and real eye openers.

 

[rwoofer]

As a student I once participated in a safety test in a 40 foot version. They didn't drop it with us in, but wanted to see how quickly 100 people could get in!

What was most surprisingly was that the seats were hard and the headrests were made from a v. hard foam. Seemed totally unforgiving to me in a violent stop. Only 2 people can actually see out, everyone else is in near darkness - maybe this encourages people to take to it only if they are really desparate....

 

[Solitaire]

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I think, though I'm probably wrong, that there used to be a rig for this kind of thing set up in the Solent....... Up the Hamble river possibly???

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The rig is still there and used. It is on the Hamble and is part of Warsash Maritime College. They used to have a drop rig like that, but they only have the standard davit launched boats now. They are to be seen pottering around Hamble on a regular basis.

 

[Hirdsp]

When I worked on the QE2, non ratings had to don a life jacket, lower a RIB into the water, jump into the water (around 60ft!!), climb into the the RIB and then tend to you exposure and broken neck from the life jacket! Yep....that would work!

 

[spannerman]

Here in Stavanger we have a safety school for offshore workers, who have to practice lifeboat drills, helicopter evacuation etc before you can go offshore. When they drop you from the rig in this type of lifeboat besides a full harness there is a strap around your forehead to prevent whiplash when the boat hits the water, apparently its not a scary as it looks, folks say the underwater evacuation from the inverted submerged helicopter rig in darkness is the worst!

 

[Lakesailor]

They have (had) one in Hull when I lived over there at the HOTA training spot. Quite a long drop I seem to think.

 

[andy_wilson]

If all around the sea was on fire, you would want to be in it!